Undated handout photo issued by Lynx UK Trust of a Lynx cub. Bringing back the lynx, which vanished from the UK more than 1,300 years ago, could generate tens of millions of pounds in benefits, a study has shown.

Police have warned people not to approach a lynx which chewed his way out of his enclosure and escaped from a zoo.

Flaviu, a two-year-old Carpathian lynx, arrived at Dartmoor Zoological Park near Plymouth, Devon, from Port Lympne in Kent on Wednesday.